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Garden We’ve got a fast growing and rather beautiful quaking aspen behind the pond; its nooks and crannies providing a nesting site year after year to a pair of starlings. Unfortunately, the crows got wind of this some years ago and now, if you ever see us waving our arms and shouting ineffectually in the garden, you’ll know why. The crows always win but the starlings don’t give up. They’ll return next year to start all over again. This tree has now become two ‘grown up’ trees with its offspring in an adjoining field seemingly catching up with its parent. And each year we have umpteen offshoots popping up where they are not wanted, which are obviously growing up from their parent’s root stock. However, this is nothing compared to one of the two biggest phenomena to be found in the world. The first is Panda (meaning ‘I spread’), which is to be found at Fish Lake, Utah, where 47,000 aspens are attached to one single root system. How extraordinary. But the other even more mind blowing natural organism is called the Humongous Fungi. It lives underground in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon and covers nearly four square miles. And the only sign of it is acre upon acre of dead and dying trees in the area. This is Armillaria ostoyae, a form of honey fungus; parasitic, it sucks the nutrients from its prey so that it becomes impossible for the tree to access water. However, there’s a lot of useful research going into fungi biology using material from this site in the labs of the National History Museum of Utah and which has already led to the discovery of ‘originally unknown medical compounds and the development of ideas for mitigating pathogens in food crops’. Finding honey fungus in your own garden “Pesticides are toxic to beneficial fungi in the soil and upset the balance of soil. Once a plant has the honey fungus really not a lot can be done” need not be the disaster you first think it might be as there are six species of which only two will damage living plants. You’ll recognise it by the fungal mycelium, which comes up at the base of trees and smells strongly of mushrooms. You may see thin strands that look a bit like bootlaces but are the fungus rhizomorphs. But, just to confuse things, the least harmful armillarias produce the most rhizomorphs so it may be quite difficult to identify the fungi at first. Don’t worry, the tree or plant will let you know in advance whether it has been attacked because its last flowering or fruiting season will be either particularly floriferous or have an unusually heavy crop. One last attempt to reproduce before its untimely death. So a seemingly healthy plant which has these symptoms is most likely to have fallen victim to this particular fungus. However, the armillaria has its good points as it recycles nutrients in dead wood making it easier for insects to return them to the soil. So as the nutrients are returned to the soil, new seedlings can take advantage of improved conditions. It used to be that copious amounts of a product called Armillatox was used as a drench to stop honey fungus in its tracks but it was banned in the early 2000s. The Main image: Honey fungus Below: Amanita muscaria Above: Fungi in the garden at Castel Gandolfo, the Pope’s summer residence Left: Fungi on oak 135 surrey-homes.co.uk
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